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Highside Hill
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3868
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3868 (3868)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Yester
- National Grid reference
- NT 5180 6376
- Latitude
- 55.86464
- Longitude
- -2.77171
- Altitude
- 314 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.7 ha
- Footprint
- 2.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, arable, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1971)
Identifiers
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL793
- National record
- record NT 56 SW 17; monument 56192
- Wikidata
- Q31096512
Sources
References
- Barber, J (1999) 'The linear earthworks of Southern Scotland; survey and classification'. Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, Ser 3, 73 (1999), 63-164